![The word 'skip' is highlighted in the sentence: The robot is not, in my opinion, a skip. The full paragraph of text: It's not the same as doing a weekend course with intuitive surgical and then saying you're a robotic surgeon and now offering it at your hospital [italics indicate heavy emphasis]. I did 300 and something cases a as a fellow on the robot and 300 and something cases laparoscopically. So a huuuge difference in the level of skill set since I was operating four days a week as opposed to the guy who's offering robotic surgery of surgery and does it twice a month, okay? The way I was trained, and the way I train my residents, my fellows and the people I train at the national level is that you need to know how to do a procedure laparoscopically first before you'd tackle it robotically. The robot is not, in my opinion, a skip. You don't jump from open to robot, although that is exactly what has happened in the last five years. For the vast majority, and it's a marketing, money issue driven by Intuitive. No concern for patient care. And unfortunately, the surgeons who don't have the laparoscopic training who have been working for 10 to 15 years - panic, because they're like "I can't do minimally invasive surgery, maybe I can do it with the robot." Right? And then that'll help with marketing and it's a money thing, so you're no longer thinking about patient care it's now driven by money from Intuitive's. perspective and from the practice perspective. This is all a mistake. This is a huge fucking mistake. - AP](/images/F40voNGa4AAGiQI.png)
References
Beane, M. (2017). Operating in the shadows: The productive deviance needed to make robotic surgery work [PhD thesis, MIT]. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113956
Beane, M. (2017). Operating in the shadows: The productive deviance needed to make robotic surgery work [PhD thesis, MIT]. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113956